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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed a 6% rise in the amount withdrawn flexibly this quarter versus the same period last year, and a 10% increase in the number of individuals using this freedom.

Schroders has been appointed as fiduciary manager to the Howard de Walden Estates Limited Retirement Benefits Scheme.

Here it is, our monthly digest of the most important pension articles Professional Pensions has written and published over the last month, along with some contextual notes.

This week’s top stories included the Department for Work and Pensions conceding that chair’s statements do not entirely work, while Isio found that the top 12 professional trustee firms are growing by 14% per annum.

Brunel Pension Partnership has launched a bespoke private debt portfolio with Aksia, with partner funds committing £945m to the pooled vehicle.

The rationale used to ultimately assess whether certain contribution notices can be issued needs further fine tuning, leading industry associations say.

Professional Pensions’ Women in Pensions Awards is returning this November and now open for nominations.

The gender pensions gap is prompting women to take action regarding their pension over fears for their financial future, according to research by Barnett Waddingham.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) have launched a joint consultation on the proposals to update the asset information collected from defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

Defined contribution (DC) pension members are heading for a “worse catastrophe than previously thought” with regards to adequacy models, according to PTL.